YouTube has always been the premier destination to watch music videos, skits, and how-tos, but consumers of shorter content found themselves drawn to competing apps. YouTube copied Instagram stories previously, and this new functionality seems targeted to TikTok teens. Now that TikTok’s future is uncertain, YouTube is announcing the launch of Shorts, a new way …
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Oracle has been selected to purchase TikTok’s US operations over Microsoft — though, according to The Wall Street Journal, the deal won’t be structured as a sale. Minutes before the news broke, Microsoft revealed that it wouldn’t be involved in any deal even though it reportedly had Trump’s blessing ahead of the app’s anticipated ban. …
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TikTok rocketed further into the mainstream in July, when President Trump indicated that his administration would like to see TikTok banned, and later sold off, over alleged privacy concerns stemming from parent company ByteDance being headquartered in China. Big players like Microsoft are interested in making a deal to keep the popular short video platform …
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